The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 174
“I could not have done anything that would have vexed my master so much, even for a kingdom, or to please you, though I think you are as beautiful as the sun.”
Who acts: I, you · What happens: not do, vex, please, think, be · To what, where: anything, master, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 done | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 done | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 done | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 done | advmod |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 done | aux |
| 6 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 done | obj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 vexed | obj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 vexed | aux |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 vexed | aux |
| 11 | vexed | vex | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 anything | acl:relcl |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 master | nmod:poss |
| 13 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 vexed | obj |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 much | advmod |
| 15 | much | much | ADV | _ | 11 vexed | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 kingdom | punct |
| 17 | even | even | ADV | _ | 20 kingdom | advmod |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 kingdom | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 kingdom | det |
| 20 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 vexed | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 please | punct |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 please | cc |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 please | mark |
| 24 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 done | advcl |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 please | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 think | punct |
| 27 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 29 think | mark |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 think | nsubj |
| 29 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 please | parataxis |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 beautiful | nsubj |
| 31 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 beautiful | cop |
| 32 | as | as | ADV | _ | 33 beautiful | advmod |
| 33 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 think | ccomp |
| 34 | as | as | ADP | _ | 36 sun. | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 sun. | det |
| 36 | sun. | sun. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 beautiful | obl |
| 37 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do in a quote | could · perfect | I | anything | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | vex in a quote | would · perfect | my master | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus that=Experiencer master=Result | |||||
| 3 | please in a quote | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other in a quote | present | I | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | you | as the sun.; beautiful property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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